Corporate Paralegal
San Jose$150k - $225kFull-timePosted 3mo ago
About the role
Corporate Paralegal at Etched focusing on governance, financings, strategic transactions, board matters, contract administration, and entity management to build scalable legal infrastructure at a fast-growing hardware/AI infrastructure company.
Responsibilities
- Own and maintain corporate records, minute books, resolutions, written consents, governance materials, and other key legal records.
- Support Board and committee processes, including meeting materials, resolutions, minutes, approvals, signatures, and equity plan issuances.
- Support financings, strategic transactions, and other major corporate matters by managing diligence requests, data rooms, transaction checklists, signatures, closing documents, and closing binders.
- Partner with Legal, Finance, People, executives, outside counsel, and other teams to keep complex legal workstreams moving.
- Maintain subsidiary and entity records and coordinate corporate filings, annual reports, foreign qualifications, registered agent matters, and related requirements.
- Support securities and equity-related matters, including director and officer questionnaires, insider lists, stockholder actions, and other corporate compliance processes.
- Help administer commercial agreements, including contract intake, approvals, execution, storage, renewals, and maintaining accurate contract records in Ironclad.
- Coordinate signatures, notarizations, certifications, good-standing certificates, and other transaction and corporate requirements.
- Maintain corporate, governance, transaction, and compliance calendars and ensure critical deadlines and deliverables don't slip.
- Build practical templates, checklists, workflows, and systems that make recurring legal work faster and more reliable.
- Take on new legal and corporate projects as Etched continues to scale.
Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience as a corporate paralegal at a leading law firm, high-growth technology company, or similar environment.
- Experience supporting venture financings, M&A, strategic transactions, tender offers, or other complex corporate matters.
- Strong experience with corporate governance, Board processes, entity management, and maintaining corporate records.
- Experience managing Carta, Ironclad, DocuSign, and virtual data rooms for a variety of diligence requests, transactions, and closing documents.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a high bar for complete and accurate work.
- Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple time-sensitive workstreams at once.
- Sound judgment when handling confidential, privileged, and sensitive information.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with attorneys, executives, outside counsel, and teams across the company.
- Track record of taking ownership, identifying what needs to happen next, and driving work through completion.
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where processes are still being built.
Skills
Required:Corporate governanceDiligence managementContract lifecycle managementcarta / Ironclad / DocuSignProject managementCommunication
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision packages with generous premium coverage
- $500 per month credit for waiving medical benefits
- Housing subsidy of $2.5k per month for those living within walking distance of the office
- Relocation support for those moving to San Jose (Santana Row)
- Various wellness benefits covering fitness, mental health, and more
- Daily lunch and dinner in our office
- Unlimited compute budget subject to ROI justification
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Etched
Etched is building frontier inference clusters: co-designs chips, racks, software and manufacturing to push the pareto frontier for AI hardware.
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